The official blog of Jeff Seymour, author of the collection of magical realist short stories Three Dances and the epic fantasy novel Soulwoven. Updated Mondays and Fridays.

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Monday, October 21, 2013

News for the Week of 10.21.13: Soulwoven Comes Together, and All Hallows Write is Soon

Hello, friends and readers!

I was up until 1:00 a.m. last night reading the second book
of Soulwoven to my fiancee, so I’m exhausted as I write this today. But it was
worth it. The book’s coming together very well. It’s darker and deeper and
harder than the first one was, but I think readers liked those things about
the first one, and if you did, you’ll like the second even more. I hope to
start posting chapters of it on Wattpad around the same time the first
book launches commercially (February 2014).

Speaking! Of! Which! The commercial edition of Soulwoven is
starting to look really exciting. The new cover is approaching a finished state,
and it’s going to blow the doors off the one I’ve got now (especially in print).
I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to handle page design and layout, and I’m
really excited about the way the whole package is coming together. I’ve always
thought of books as pieces of art, of which the text is just the heart. And I
think that Soulwoven is turning into a piece of art, and it’s incredibly
satisfying to watch.

More news! On Oct. 31, I’ll be staying up all night with a
couple other authors for a scary story writing marathon we’re calling All
Hallows Write (more info at allhallowswrite.com). That means I should have a
new short story up here for you guys on Nov. 1. It’ll be a bit of a
departure from my usual style, but I think it’ll still be recognizable as mine,
and it’ll still be good. Hopefully. I’ve never tried anything like this before,
and that’s half the fun.

Finally: Nadya. Nadya’s mired in the muck of the traditional
publishing process, searching for the needle in the haystack that will be the
agent who loves her. I’ll know in a month or two whether that’s going to
happen. I’ve gotten lots of nibbles so far, but no bites. Everyone has been in
concurrence that it’s a good book. It’s just a matter of finding the right home
for it.

So there’s more coming from me to you shortly, in one form
or another.

Stay tuned, thanks for reading, and if you want to give me a
wonderful birthday present, head on over to Amazon and pick up a copy of Three
Dances. :-)